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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that read more
The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces read more
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Reality is something you rise above.
Reality is something you rise above.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
